Recently I had been getting some questions about the next updates. I know there had been some time in between since my visit to Lisbon and posts about SteemFest², however I must admit that things seem to go a bit slower in Portugal :) Also, because it's summer holidays it seems to influence response times. Nonetheless, from now on the rat race to 1 November is on!

So as of now, you can visit the completely updated SteemFest website which includes program details, map of the venues, first speakers (many more to be announced) and links to the ticket shop / integral crypto ticket buy mechanism.

SteemFest tickets starting at € 222.22 (1/3 of costprice).

This year's minimum ticket price is a bit more expensive then last year, but still (IMHO) very attractively priced:

This year we add a full extra day of conference which means a full day of F&B & location rentals and tech / livestreaming.

Social events outside of the hotel means: more venues to be rented this year (about 4 more in comparison to last year)

Last year's event had an unrealistically high subsidisation :)

That said, the 'Minnow Ticket' € 222.22 is priced at about 1/3 of the costprice of your attendance, thanks to the support of Steemit.inc and many whales' individual contributions, who like the idea to have an event to be as inclusive as possible. Be sure to also read more on the @t-r-f page about the Travel Reimbursement Fund.

I kindly ask, if you can reasonably afford it to look into options of buying another 'Ticket Type', for example the 'Regular Ticket' priced at 50% of the cost price of your attendance or even higher levels. Check out the SteemFest site's ticket section to learn more about all ticket types. Note that all tickets are equal by means of what you can do with them. Everybody is a VIP, it is just a matter of how much you contribute towards the event.

Manual Crypto Payments done through the SteemFest site in SBD / Steem / BTS are processed minimum every day at 10 AM CEST and 22 PM CEST by checking our email inbox and validating the incoming transfers on the @steemfest wallet (and the @steemfest wallet on Bitshares). Then we mail you a coupon code to claim your ticket. (you still need to claim your ticket after we mail you the couponcode!)

First Names SteemFest² Lisbon:

I'm happy to announce the first names for the 2017 edition of SteemFest:

In other news... I'm doing the craziest Kite-surf challenge this weekend (saturday) - kiting the whole coastline of the Netherlands (130 km's / 80 miles straight line distance). It's a fundraiser for the dutch heart research foundation. We'll be surfing with 100 kitesurfers from 6AM till approx 6PM with about 5 breaks every other 30 km.

Cheers to you brother for the updates, and it was fantastic meeting you last year at the first Steemfest (props to your pops for the yummy food your family served on Sunday!) and again at Consensus in New York this past May.
Massive respect for doing the Kite-surf challenge this weekend raising money for the Dutch Heart Research Foundation 🤝!

Roeland, if we can sponsor you in your fund raising efforts, please provide a link in a reply to this message so that I, along with other generous Steemians, can show you our support.

Thank you for all you're doing to make this a better world, in SO many ways, for ALL of us.

hy @roelandp, I'm a newcomer to Steemit too, can you teach me a little about Steemit, I know very little about Steemit.
I want to know, how to promote my post to be better known, because if I make a good post not many see it, so it is very futile I typed to make a good article!

👊 Excellent news, excellent news in deed!

I will be doing what I can to support the event this year, including at least one ticket giveaway contest! I still haven't decided what the contest will be, but it sure will be interesting 🙀 So stay tuned!

I highly recommend anyone with the means to try and make this event, it will be more then just a conference, it will be something you will remember for a lifetime, so you do not want to miss it! On top of that @roelandp is not only a great Steemian but a amazing event organizer and I wouldn't miss this event for the 🌎. @firepower is just an all around great human being and with his team there helping run everything smoothly, unstoppable 👍

This comments rewards (yes all of that 100% self vote as well ) alongside several upcoming posts will be put towards my ticket giveaway contests and the travel fund! So make sure to look out for those as well.

I hope to meet each and every one of you at STEEMFEST this November and do my part to help get some of you there.

As a Steemit Witness I feel it is my duty to help this awesome community in anyway I can so feel free to reach out to me for anything or mention me in a post or comment 🤖😏 and I'll do my best to get back to you!

@blueorgy As a platform that brings people together to do what matters most to them, Meetup is entrusted with a lot of data, including the content and information generated by our members. As we make some changes to build a better Meetup and bring more people together around the world.
It’s time to defend our democracies and restore values of inclusivity, love, tolerance, and respect — one helping hand, one voice, one Meetup at a time.
I really sad I'm not coming in steemfest!!

I am very happy to listen to every sentence from your post. I get the latest knowledge and experience, thank you for sharing with us, I hope we will continue to be able to communicate and share information through this community, hopefully your day is fun.

Best wishes for you from me,
I have the latest information you might see ..!

This technique will NOT work here on Steemit.
I wish you the best of success and that is whY I take the time to even comment here.
If you want to succeed then make comments and posts that contribute VALUE to the community.
Best Regards~*~

This is going to be great. Its a shame i can attending due to some few setbacks. I will however try my possible best to spread the word on other social media platforms in the hopes of getting more people preferably investors here on this platform. I wish you a successful steemfest.

This technique will NOT work here on Steemit.
I wish you the best of success and that is whY I take the time to even comment here.
If you want to succeed then make comments and posts that contribute VALUE to the community.
Best Regards~*~

This technique will NOT work here on Steemit.
I wish you the best of success and that is whY I take the time to even comment here.
If you want to succeed then make comments and posts that contribute VALUE to the community.
Best Regards~*~

This post is very informative, especially my newcomer in steemit who is still very poor understand the development of everything in this media. Maybe from this post i can learn a bit and find information. But I also have much to learn to understand what information in the content of your post ...

Forgive me Mr. @roelandp, i am a beginner in steemit, i still taboo with steemfest, what is this program? Please give me an explanation because I am certainly very interested in your writing, my hope that other steemians will also understand this program, if this allows me would be happy to participate in this great program.

I'd love to go to steemfest. Unfortunately I can't fit it into my limited travel budget. I found steemit as a way to supplement my income, learning that if you have something to offer, and put up good informative work you will make some money.

If positive comments were earnings, I'd already have my ticket. I've been living out of a backpack for the past 10 years, and I'm highly knowledgeable on travel. I've been doing great travel reports, travel tips, and free advice via video. I've got a pretty solid group of religious followers who value my info. But to be honest it's a lot of time with very little pay off.

I've been on the fence now for a couple weeks about leaving the platform. Problem is most people that follow me have no voting power, so I'm working for peanuts. A little help from someone like you would certainly raise my spirits and keep this unique and well received content creator part of the steem team.

Just trying to reach out to someone like you before I just walk away like I've seen many undervalued quality content creators since I've started. Seems like over the past few months there are great minnows, lost in a sea of minnow slush like myself.

I really support this job, even if I do not get a ticket. @roelandp
There are some factors I can not simultaneously there, I am not enough SBD and STEEM for the moment because it is out of reach.
With the hope that next year will be held at this event in my place or in a place close to where we are. thank you

If you ACTUALLY read the post you would see he linked TWO people doing a contest.
You expect him to organize, run and post about this entire contest and then on top of that answer comments from people who don't even read the posts?
I do not think you really want to go.

the price. As you can see Minnow = paying 1/3rd of the cost of attending, rest is sponsored. Regular = paying 1/2 of the cost of attending. Its a matter of what you can afford and how steem has been treating you :)

I am soon excited!! I just got my ticket!! I can't wait to see you all already! @roelandp you have done such an amazing job! I am so thrilled to see what this will be like! I am also so honoured to be chosen to be a speaker! I shall start preparing! :) Can't wait to meet and see you all guys!!! xxx

wow I will try my best to make it to Portuga. Should I book my ticket To Lisbon? ad then hotel near the airport?
I live in Germany. Moreover, will the ticket : any level take care of all event expenses inlcluding foods and transport?

In addition to my comment, feel free to join the conversation in my new post about future of steem...it will motivate you more about steem . More success to you.

STEEM Fest sounds a really cool initiative to collaborate STEEM community. I am very new to the community and I am overwhelmed by the way this works! I can actually find useful posts by people around the world on various useful topics which make it even more attractive. I look forward to contributing more and more to this community and use my skills to grow it exponentially! Love STEEM < 3
Regards,
Abhimanyue Singh
(A freshie to the STEEM Community)

Super Duper Stoked for this years SteemFest!
Last year I had way to much going on including the birth of my first son the same week of SteemFest!
I am planning on being there this year and looking into the hotels now!
I would love to make a presentation at this event and contribute my life time of knowledge and wisdom on important topics from almost 2 decades of being living free.
Be in touch!
SteemON!